There are several conditions for traveling.

Adequate disposable income

A person's income level, or family income level and wealth, determines whether he can travel abroad and his consumption level, which is an important material basis for his tourism activities. There is a simple reason. Tourism is a kind of consumption activity, and tourists must pay a certain fee for it to complete the tourism. However, it is impossible for a person or a family to spend all their income on traveling. Therefore, the most direct factor that determines whether a person can become a tourist and realize tourism activities is disposable income.

The so-called disposable income refers to the total income after deducting taxes and social expenses (health and life insurance, pensions and unemployment benefits received in advance, etc.) in a certain period of time (usually 1 year). ), the part that must be consumed in daily life (food, clothing, housing and transportation, etc.). ) and the rest after saving to prevent unexpected expenses.

The disposable income of a family can be measured by Engel's coefficient. The lower the Engel coefficient, the higher the disposable income level. At the same time, the amount of disposable income determines the consumption level and structure of tourists, as well as the choice of tourist destinations and modes. The more disposable income, the farther away tourists may choose tourism activities, and the greater the room for choosing comfortable and fast modes of transportation; The more you spend on food, shelter, transportation, shopping and entertainment, the lower the proportion of expenditure; The more disposable income, the higher the tourism consumption. On the contrary, it changes in the opposite direction

(2) Sufficient leisure time

1. Spare time

Even if a person has strong economic strength and sufficient disposable income, it does not mean that he can become a tourist. Because tourists' travel activities are all in different places, tourists must leave their usual places to visit different places, which requires tourists to have enough leisure time to participate in tourism activities. Adequate leisure time is another necessary objective condition for a person to travel and become a tourist.

So, what is leisure time? The knowledge and understanding of leisure time need to start with the time composition of life. Generally speaking, life time can be divided into three parts: working time, living time and leisure time. Working time refers to the working time necessary for people to maintain personal and family survival, including legal employment working time and necessary extra working time. For students, it refers to study time; Life time refers to the time spent meeting people's physiological needs (such as eating and sleeping) and dealing with daily chores (such as family affairs and necessary social activities).

It can be seen that leisure time refers to the time that people can freely control entertainment, recreation, socialization or other activities that they are interested in outside their work and life time, also known as free time or disposable time.

2. Leisure time distribution tourism

Leisure time is a part of people's non-working time. In modern society, it has four distributions:

Daily leisure, weekly leisure, public holidays and paid holidays.

Daily leisure is the leisure time outside work (study) and life every day, which is characterized by being scattered in several time periods in a day. Although it can be used for rest or entertainment, it is difficult to be used for tourism activities.

Weekly leisure usually refers to weekend rest days or weekly rest days. At present, China and most countries in the world practice day five, with two days off at weekends. Day five has been implemented in China since May 1995. Although this kind of leisure time is relatively concentrated, it is generally only suitable for some short-distance travel activities because of its short time.

Public holidays are usually called legal holidays. Due to the different history, culture and religious beliefs of different countries, the distribution of public holidays is also different. The most typical public holidays in western countries are Christmas and Easter. At present, public holidays in China include New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival, which usually last for many days. This provides a good opportunity for people to go out to visit relatives and friends or travel for a holiday, and public holidays form a tourist peak.

Paid vacation, which is a priority paid vacation system for employees stipulated by some economically developed countries in the form of law. This kind of holiday lasts for a long time, such as 6 weeks in Sweden, almost 4 weeks in Western Europe and 2-4 weeks in the United States. The average length of time in Europe is about 22-25 working days each year, which is an excellent opportunity for people to carry out tourism activities. Most tourists from western countries travel internationally with the help of paid holidays. China National Tourism Administration suggested to the government to take paid vacation, which will also become an opportunity for people to travel on vacation.

(3) Other target spare parts

Having enough disposable income and enough leisure time are two important basic conditions for a person to realize tourism activities. But this does not mean that a person can become a tourist as long as he has these two conditions. In fact, whether a person can become a real tourist depends on many factors. These factors can be divided into two categories.

1. Personal factors

Personally, age, sex, race, education level, etc. may affect the realization of a person's tourism activities. But two factors are the most important. One is personal physical condition. A person must have a certain physical strength to travel, otherwise it may be difficult to make a trip. Most tourists are strong young people. According to the statistics of the National Tourism Administration on international tourists coming to China, tourists under the age of 50 account for about 80% of the total number of tourists. Although many elderly people have retirement income and plenty of leisure time, the proportion of traveling abroad is still low, which is because of their aging and physical fatigue. From this perspective, the tourism industry should launch some tourism products suitable for the elderly market; The second is the family situation. Many surveys show that families with babies under 4 years old are unlikely to travel because of the drag of children.

2. Social factors

Social factors include many, but mainly refer to social political and economic system, social security environment, scientific and technological level and so on. The foreign policy of a country's government often determines the possibility of tourism; Countries and regions with stable social environment and similar political views can attract tourists, while areas with unstable political, economic and social security will deter tourists. For example, the Middle East and the Gulf were originally attractive areas for tourism, but in recent years, due to the constant war, tourists are afraid to go; The level of science and technology, especially the development of transportation technology, can greatly promote the development of tourism. There are many similar factors, so it is unnecessary to list them one by one, because the objective factors are mainly discussed from the tourists' own necessary conditions.

Second, subjective conditions.

(A) Tourism motivation and its mechanism

Just because a person has the objective conditions for the formation of tourists does not mean that he can become a tourist. If he has no subjective will to travel, he can't become a tourist. In other words, the formation of tourists needs subjective conditions besides objective conditions, and this subjective condition is tourism motivation.